thank you, paul goodloe. appreciate that report, sir. we'll check on the forecast coming up at the top of the hour. >>> but we're going to politics now. where the white house is trying to navigate an uneven road toward jump-starting the economy. recent financial indicators are trending better, but unemployment still north of 9%. congress still has not passed any significant part of the president's jobs bill. senior white house adviser david plouffe talked about the gridlock on "meet the press" this morning. >> the president's going to do everything he can, whether it's on housing, student loans, we're going to keep this up. so at the same time, we're going to try to get congress to act on behalf of the middle class and help the american economy. we're going to do everything we can. as the president said, the american people can't afford to wait and he's not going to wait. >> the jobs bill dead, effectively? >> absolutely not. we'll have a vote in the senate on putting construction workers back to work, rebuild america. >> you can hear th